Arboviruses

Question 1

Arboviruses come mostly from what genus of mosquitos?

Answer 1

Aedes

Question 2

What are the four arboviruses?

Answer 2

• Yellow Fever
• Dengue
• Zika
• West Nile

Question 3

Arboviruses are in what family?

Answer 3

Flavi-

Question 4

Encephalitis, Febrile diseases, and occasionally hemorrhagic fevers are symptoms sometimes seen in:

Answer 4

Arboviruses

Question 5

What arboviruses are in Sylvatic/Jungle cycle?

Answer 5

West Nile

Zika

Question 6

What arboviruses are in Urban Cycle?

Answer 6

Yellow Fever
Dengue
Zika

Question 7

Birds are the major vertebrate reservoir for:

Answer 7

arboviruses

Question 8

Culex Mosquitos carry:

Answer 8

West Nile

Question 9

Dengue Fever is carried by:

Answer 9

Aedes mosquitos

Question 10

Fever, headache, myalgia, bone ache (breakbone fever) are symptoms of:

Answer 10

dengue fever

Question 11

What virus is associated with ADE?

Answer 11

dengue fever
*ADE = when you get infected with virus one time, heal, and then get infected a second time - the second infection is much worse than first

Question 12

Theres a potential to eliminate dengue worldwide because:

Answer 12

humans are only reservoir

Question 13

Why did the dengue vaccine get taken off the market?

Answer 13

Because it was causing symptoms in the patients injected with it, symptoms equivalent to the disease itself; also the virus was mutating against the vaccine

Question 14

Zika was first discovered in:

Answer 14

monkeys in Uganda in 1947.

Question 15

1st sexually transmitted arbovirus.

Answer 15

Zika